A-shu the Qianzhousaurus is a tyrannosaurid dinosaur that lived in the Late Cretaceous. Its fossils were discovered in Jiangxi, China. It was about 9 meters long and different from most tyrannosaurs of its time.

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And yet more! This is the Cambrian Sanctacaris uncata ("claw of saintly crab").

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The Jurassic 1m long otter-rat-lizard-mammal, Kayentatherium, coming soon to the mod.

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Galar fossils pokemons my beloved

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At first, I didn’t think much of the Baxcalibur line, but then I found out they were inspired by Concavenator, that also had a back spike thing, arm quills, and its fossils were found in SPAIN-

I love that they turned an obscure dinosaur into a Pokémon~

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which lived about 115 million years ago, is a genus of well-known ankylosaurs because their fossils are well preserved, including intact skeletal fossils and many scales preserved in situ. 

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-based on the known fossils, it's likely a basal coelurosaur of some kind, possibly an early tyrannosauroid! If so, it probably had many of the traits basal tyrannosauroids typically had, such as long arms with 3-fingered hands and a slim body build! (2/2)

Art by Joschua Knüppe!

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The Mosasaur and Dickinsonia fakemon I designed for 's Alolan Fossils video!
These were a lot of fun to design as always! In the video he talks about what inspired him on these designs but I'll go into detail on what I added to them:

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the oc vs the inspiration is trending sauuurrr heres vains crystal alt! it was just a regular alt palette at first but i decided to turn mineralized tissue (teeth/horns/etc) into opal after remembering that opalized fossils exist (img from timothy frauenfelder)

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Animal skull, ammonite, trilobite, fossilized coral. A of

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Fragments of the past, preserved over millions of years~

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The Lagerstätten of Lebanon have provided some truly beautiful fossils. This is of one of the more charismatic species: Mimodactylus libanensis. It had Strikingly long wings and teeth only in the front of the snout. Images from Kellner et al., art by

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Wrapping up talk - join the pterosaur panel to learn about publishing on fossils (which should be useful even for the small number of people NOT into pterosaurs)

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23. Probably fossils I guess because I like that we have this cool thing that turns into even cooler Pokemon

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A bit of temporal mob backfill. This lovely chap is the Permian gorgonopsid Rubidgea. Coming soon.

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A-Qi the Sinoceratops was a large ceratopsian with fossils found in present-day Shandong Province, China. Sinoceratops is the only ceratopsid discovered outside North America so far.

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